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Stress as observed in the Middle East. WARNING: Looking at this picture would be really evil if we told you who it was supposed to be. If you know, consider atonement by suicide now.

Ward and his wife, seen here, had a bitter marriage.

Being the empiricist that he was, Ward kept a very detailed yet private journal of his experiences throughout his life in an attempt to better understand the human response to social stimuli around him or her. Ward's primary stimuli were his nagging wife (Elizabeth "Lizzie" Caroline) and the rocks and plants he encountered during his career as both a botanist and a geologist. Oddly, Ward talks more about rocks and plants than his own wife. When, on rare occasions, he does mention his wife, it's usually in a negative tone, calling her such words as "ribald", "tail-peddler", and "dant" (these were all very, very bad words back then). He claims her to be an intolerable nagging hag who failed to cook anything that didn't resemble horse feces.

In retrospect, some have speculated that Ward's own animosity and anger is a result of his own troubled home-life. Historical evidence has proven that Liz Caroline was both a real bitch and a real hoe; putting up with her proved impossible, even for an acclaimed genius like Ward.

So where does his theory of "pissed" come from? It's highly believed that Ward based his theory of "pissed" on his own personal experiences. Being one of his later works, "pissed" actually comes from an interjection Ward exclaimed on what he called was "the worst day of my entire life since I was robbed by those midgets." On this day, Ward was reportedly fired from his job, mugged (not by midgets), and lost his car keys. At the end of the day, Ward returned home, only to have his wife questioned what the matter was. Upon hearing her voice, Ward urinated in his pants from anxiety, and replied, "PISSED!"

After the event, Ward adopted the word as his own little inside joke before submitting it to the scientific community.

Ward has also described pissed as "mad enough to kill a man and not feel remorse about it sometime later in life." While this is a broad and often misleading analogy, it hasn't been rejected by the scientific community.

In an 1884 dictionary, pissed is defined as "a form of rage which is absent of concern, regret, or confliction with other emotions; similar to hate, without the plausibility of epiphany." Ward made the following comment on the definition:

191 AD - DongZhuo seizes the throne like a fatass, everyone gets pissed. Battle of Hulao Pass begins. More people get pissed. Lu Bu gets pissed. Dong Zhuo is assassinated by Lu Bu due to the pissing off of him.

476 AD - Rome falls. Roman citizens are pissed.

769 AD - Arabs are tired and pissed at having to chisel everything into rock and force the Chinese to introduce paper to the region.

1000 AD - Earth has officially lasted 1000 years since the birth of that one guy who died in 36 AD. Everybody is absolutely pissed.

1111 AD - The year 1111 is a year that can be read backwards and forwards, as well as upside down. This scares people. Some are pissed.